Reply #5: Correct, when the Safety Coordinator isn't around people rarely [View All]

[rasputin1952]

adhere to Safety Regulations. OSHA generally comes around after an accident or they let you know ahead of time they are going to be around for an inspection. Serious complaints can bring OSHA in unannounced, but the guy who wasn't wearing the gear wasn't going to be the one calling OSHA.

I know one thing, w/all of the tings that are in a sewer, I highly doubt I'd be down there w/o full protective gear, other than the usual stuff one would expect to find in a sewer, there are needles, rats, stuff being blasted off the walls that could contain cholera, TB, tetanus, E. coli and a host of other little nasties....even the occasional alligator has been found, but that tends to keep the rat population down.

I'm sure OSHA has been there since the incident, but I doubt they visited the site before an incident occurred.